Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Doctor Who Vs. Jack the Ripper (1988)

Euston Films and CBS, this two-part mini-series was originally broadcast in the UK and America in October 1988 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Whitechapel Murders.

Writers Derek Marlowe and David Wickes presented a fictionalised account of the hunt for the infamous Victorian serial killer, and drew heavily from Stephen Knight's now discredited book, The Final Solution (1976). The Royal/Masonic conspiracy theory, first postulated by Thomas Stowell in 1970, was popularised by the BBC's Jack the Ripper (1973), then the films Murder By Decree (1978), and From Hell (2001).

Michael Jayston (Narrator) played the Valeyard in The Trial of a Time Lord season, then reprised the role for Big Finish's Unbound: He Jests at Scars (2003), Trial of the Valeyard (2014) and The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure (2015)- he also voiced the Tsar for Serpent Crest: Tsar Wars (AudioGo, 2011)

Peter Brayham was also the stunt co-ordinator on The Christmas Invasion, New Earth and School Reunion